From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 19 22:22:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF93137B405 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost.softweyr.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=bd2ff58fd6354b5fc5352d61088ffa07) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15NSpD-0000gA-00; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:27:43 -0600 Message-ID: <3B57C14F.746C95A6@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:27:43 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Joerg Micheel , David Scheidt , Max Khon , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arcnet support for FreeBSD (request for review) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Joerg Micheel wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:35:51AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > :Max Khon wrote: > > > :> > > > :> hi, there! > > > : > > > :what is arcnet? > > > : > > > > > > It's a token-based LAN protocol. It's used in some embedded applications, > > > as its controllers are cheap, it's pretty low-overhead, and has > > > deterministic behavior (you can calculate the worst case time to send a > > > message to another station). Industrial controlers and data acquistion are > > > the two uses that jump out of my memory. > > > > David, Julian was kidding you. Read his response again. > > I'm flattered that you think I was kidding.. > actually I had no clue what Arcnet was :-) Kids these days, eh, Joerg? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message